Will your smart home device listen to you, but not your girlfriend? She's not the only one being ignored. A recent UN report identified a worrying number of issues relating to sexism in virtual assistants. Here's what they found, why it's happening, and what we can do about it.
On International Women's Day, we recommend five simple actions we can all take to help improve gender inclusivity in the tech industry, which still has a long way to go to close the gender gap.
The second annual PodCon, a convention for podcasters and their fans, took place in Seattle over the weekend. The event still embodied the scrappy underdog on its second outing: It’s one of the smaller cons around, fascinating not for its size, but for the future it represents.
A shocking Amnesty International survey has revealed the scale of misogynistic and racist abuse directed at female journalists and politicians on Twitter. The crowdsourced study studied over 200,000 tweets and discovered that abusive tweets are sent to women every 30 seconds
Consumer technology, like smartphones, laptops, and tablets, has become an integral part of everyday life for the majority of the global population. Yet, the working conditions in which these devices are created have an increasingly terrible reputation for workplace welfare
WeWork has turned off its unlimited beer tap in its New York office, a move that also follows a lawsuit and over alleged sexual assault. But, is the revised beer policy just damage control or a sign that the tech industry might be shaping up and addressing some problematic issues
An artificial intelligence that dislikes women or people of color sounds like a concept straight out of a Twilight Zone episode. Instead, it's reality. How did we get here? Is it possible to build an AI that won't reflect the bone-deep prejudices that exist in the real world?
How did the sci-fi and fantasy-centric Hugo Awards shift to highlighting diverse voices? And can the tech industry, with its
